Comments on: Veterans Department A Bureaucratic Mess

CBS Evening News: Missing Files, Unopened Mail, Deliberately Misdated Forms Revealed By Inspector General

[hatesthecolt]

Which federal department is not a bureaucratic mess?
Posted by leeanna59

Most of them are bureaucratic because they have to be. But most are not messes. VA is a mess. Interior is a mess.

[rickwar98]

Obama has been in office less than 2 months and already its a mess. Oh woe is us.
Posted by mrs_concrete at 5:40 AM : Mar 5, 2009


Go back and pour some more concrete in your brain cavity, it's this administration that is finding the mess.

[hatesthecolt]

Patpace, as much as I'd like to attribute your personal successes and those you have witnessed to Bush, the bottom line in the article is that there are tremendous problems in VA and if EVERYONE isn't getting the service you describe, then there's a fundamental problem attributable at least to the Secretary for Veteran's Affairs and probably to the President as well. I believe Shinseki can fix this ... I hope I am right. I also believe if he can't fix it, then Obama will ask him to resign and try someone else until someone gets it fixed. Not just ignore it for 8 years like Bush did.

[patpace]

Having used the VA since 1979, I can honestly say the VA has come a long way the last four years under the Bush administration. It is time to stop fighting over the blame game, and work to stop history from repeating itself on our new generation of veterans. There are so many Veterans who just need that chance too create a great future?Is funding available for just a few needed housing developments for single veterans and veteran families with children to help ease their transition into civilian life? While our government already knows from experience that house trailers do not hold up, and how trailer living can cause or even worsen health problems, a trailer park environment is not good for a new veteran or their family while dealing with the stress of college and readjustment into civilian life. A few normal living housing developments around the country are desperately needed for veterans. The area here in Northeastern Pennsylvania has fantastic colleges, great medical services at the Wilkes-Barre area VAMC, and breathtaking mountain scenery which is very relaxing. Where are other similar areas located at around the U.S. which can also offer a great college education, along with a very reasonable cost of living? A needed one time $17 billion in bailout funding for Veteran Affairs would not only provide that needed chance while complimenting the new GI bill, the employment this would create would end the cycle of most homeless veterans by giving them a PURPOSE in life and finally bring them home. If all political parties would put the energy spent in blaming each other for this many decade?s old problem, into solving this problem, there would no longer be a problem?Just a few housing developments with a few apartment buildings would need constant maintenance while it helps many for generations to come. Physical therapy facilities etc. in these small communities like Olympic sized hot pools would be utilized for so, so many decades. A nice playground area for veterans little one?s would even need constant maintenance. The employment, training, housing, and medical care are all necessities needed to find or create that needed purpose in life for so many veterans. While it is time history stops repeating it-self on veterans, it is also time for our government to stop doing the same thing over again while hoping for different results. One time $17 billion in additional funding to do it right the first time. . .

[WillowOne]

"In the latest outrage involving the VA, it turns out thousands of claims for benefits weren't even opened...."
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The Bush "administration" was obviously anything but.

Department after department was asleep at the wheel.

The VA.

FEMA.

The SEC.

DOJ.

Absolutely sickening.....
Posted by formrusmcsgt at 2:13 AM : Mar 5, 2009

Oh yeahhhhhhhh, it was Bush's fault that a bunch of lazy arsed government employees in Detroit didn't open the freaking mail!!!! And weren't doing their jobs. Pro'bly a bunch of ACORN members...the prize of the democrapic party.

Just like it's Bush's fault he couldn't stick his pinky finger out and stop a cat 5 hurricane, when a bunch of people were too stupid to get out of it's way!!!

You people make about as much sense as the toad out on my patio.

[michael0004]

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And Bush inherited all of them from Clinton who hated the military and spat on them,
Posted by mrs_concrete at 6:13 AM : Mar 5, 2009


mrs. concrete, no surprise that you are in denial that Bush is responsible for anything that negative that occurred while he was in charge, but please spare us the despicable lies that you are spreading.

[michael0004]

mrs concrete, you need to take your head out of the sand where apparently it has been buried for 8 years. If you are looking to bash a President for the problems at the VA reported in this news article, Bush is the one you need to be bashing inasmuch as these abuses all occurred during his presidency. But, of course, Bush is not responsible for anything that occurred during his administration. It is always someone elses fault. Yeah, right!

[rickwar98]

"I'm proud to be here today with our veterens"

"Ok now let's get the hell out of here and ignore them and their needs" They'll never notice with all the other lies I told them and the American people. Let's roll, mission accomplished!"

George Bush

PS: Send a note to Rush that we support or vets and he can pass it on to the other brain dead lemmings neo-cons.

Yep baby! Mission Accomplished!

[mjvwsr]

and soon our health care system will be run by the same bureaucratic idiots. It's not a republican thing or a democratic thing it's a GOVERNMENT thing

[babooph]

Should it have been run in a "business" fashion -like the banks & auto co.s & ins co.s?